The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1887-04-15

CRUELTY or WOMEN.
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Women merits tho worlds love and
admiration. and in her highest estate
she will always be the ideal Of painter,
poet. novelist. and Of society in its best
condition. and yet il must be confessed
that there il cruelty In woman which
demands much attention from the mod
ern educator and from the penal code
Of the State. The Illinois Humane So
ciety 3 met constantly BY the awful
fact Of the cruelty Of that being for
whom any working-man will rise and
give up his place in the car. He Is
right in doing IL in the name OF the
noble ones Of the sex. right in acting in
the name Of his mother or sister. but so
far - the particular woman il con-
cerned, he may have given his place to
being who whipped her child half to
death before she left home. or win whip
il when she gets back from her street
car excursion To knock a child over
is quite luxury to many female to
whom man gives his place in the street.
car
The Chicago Humane Society has re-
Gently brought into the city little
twelve-year-old girl whose life for
year or two would make good page
in '.Dante's Inferno She was sent
out to a family which dearly and ten
derby desired to adopt some friendless
child and give it the blessing Of home.
To the music Of '.Home. Sweet Home
the child went out to this paradise in
the country The husband and wife
who received the charge proved to be
church members Of the kind who are
not saved BY works. Whether ut fam
lily worship the deacon sang that night
the hymn
"A charge . keep hsvs."
and whether the little stranger found
on her bedroom wall = motto. well
framed and expressing desire to have
God bless our home. has not yet ap-
peared in the evidence. but it is dread
fully certain that the child did not
find any bed-clothes. or clothes for her
self. but she found heavy farm work to
do before day and after dark. out in
the fields, when the temperature was
far below zero; she found abuse in
doors worse than the weather without: !
no trace Of humanity from the Chris |
tan woman. and BY kind Of poetic
Justice. when our Humane Society !
found the little victim with her hands |
and feet swollen to double size from
the angel Of the house was Of |
At church!
Now this IS the kind Of woman whose |
neck halter would be kind Of orna-
ment- No Elizabeth collar would so
become that part Of womanly beauty.
That neck Is Of no account in the
world, there being no brain at one end
and no heart at the other. The child.
Or. rather, the ruins Of the child. are at !
4 hospital here in tn CITY.
Many women are ~onderfully hu- /
name toward their gentleman friends,
but heartless toward their own sex; |
hence. their kindness is not culture
nor high nature, but the accident OF \
he hour, only . form Of gilt spread 4
over tin. brass or pewter. The misers
ire not all Of the masculine gender. /
under the handsome bon
net At the theater or the church. there
beats . heart which has never revealed !
my form Of mercy to animal or man
Kind
II may well Be hoped that such con-
iuct i exceptional; but the point in de-
bate i that this kind Of severity Is -
common among women as il Is among
men, The word woman" does mot |
mean kindness II should, and per
maps will. but the woman host il still
IN the march, and has not reached, BY /
many . mile. that height Of soul called \
II Blue Beard was cruel. /
% was Queen Elizabeth; II Captain
Kidd was . pirate. Kate Bender was
quite - ready to kill man for Z few 4
iollars- We all love the dear. good |
women when they are educated and \
'efined and would rather permit Z /
mouse to escape than 70 kill one; but
ve do not desire to be blinded to the
act that woman can sometimes equal
nan in meriting : good hanging. ~